This post is part of an ongoing series called Ask Jeff. This is where I’ll take a question someone within the WPTavern or WordPress community gives me and provide my thoughts/answer to. This weeks question was submitted by Twitter user miroslavglavic. Question: How do I change the admin boxes instead of WP feeds and even…
The folks over at instantshift.com have published an extensive WordPress theme showcase. I actually enjoy sites who create these types of showcases because it’s much easier to browse through one page of themes rather than scouring the web looking for good designs. This particular showcase has over 140+ Themes in it. In fact, after checking…
Episode 42 of WordPress Weekly which fell on the same day as Friday the 13th contained a round table discussion where we talked about the various events or circumstances that would need to take place in order for WordPress to meet its demise. Although in the end, none us believed that WordPress would be disappearing…
Welcome to the WordPress Tavern Friday Happy Hour. Each Friday, this post will provide a summary of what is going on within the WordPress Tavern Community. From The Forum: Hosting Your Own Website – Community Member Conorp has been thinking about purchasing an old computer and setting it up as a webhosting server. There are…
Ever hear that saying, “All good things must come to an end“? All things end, even good things. Even though WordPress is the number one blogging platform across the web today, at some point, it will have to claim a number other than one. So with that in mind on this Friday the 13th, I’ll…
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that next week, I will be offline for the most part as I take this opportunity to Reformat my PC as well as my Notebook. It’s been a longtime coming and I need to get it done now rather than later. Also, I need this week to…
Just moments ago, WordPress 2.7.1 was released to the public. This releases contains 68 fixed tickets. Nothing really in the way of features as this is more like a maintenance release. To upgrade if you’re using WordPress 2.7, browse to TOOLS-UPGRADE and click on the upgrade button. I would still back everything up just in…
Ed Morita, a Hawaiian resident can lay claim to taking WordPress Fandom to a new level as he now has a permanent WordPress logo as a tattoo on his forearm. Lorelle has been mentioning this event for quite awhile now on Twitter and it’s pretty cool to see Ed actually go through with it. However,…
Elliot Back recently published a post describing how most of the items appearing in the WordPress Dashboard had nothing to do with WordPress. Elliot published the following image within his blog post which highlights the posts which have nothing to do with WordPress. Notice how all of those posts point back to Matt’s personal blog.…
The other night, I was asked by Dave Moyer, producer of the WordPress podcast WordCast, if I was interested in doing a pre-recorded segment for a new podcast he is producing called Aimless Agenda. The segment would highlight the hot topics of discussion during the previous week on the WordPress Tavern forum. I agreed to…
Stefan Vervoort who heads up the blog DivitoDesign has published his own comprehensive list of WordPress resources. He has gone the extra mile and published them in easy to browse sections containing everything from theme starting points to noteworthy articles in the Codex to WordPress Hacks. Stefan also includes a section for WordPress related forums…
We have a great thread going on in the forum which was started by community member Kit. The question is simple. You Know You’re A WordPress Addict When? You’re job is to fill in the blanks. Already, many people have admitted their tendencies on being a WordPress Addict. In fact, some users have replied with…
For some reason this morning, I was browsing the web and came across the Ping-O-Matic website and noticed in the footer that the servers the site runs on were donated by Automattic. This peaked my curiosity so I browsed the Automattic website to see if Ping-O-Matic was listed as a sponsored project. It’s not. However,…
While browsing around the archive of WordPress.org, I came across a blog post from 2004 where Matt Mullenweg describes WordPress having multi-blog capabilities. He also mentions at the end of the blog post about how the server has been up and down with a description of a long term solution. So without further adieu. To…
This post is part of an ongoing series called Ask Jeff. This is where I’ll take a question someone within the WPTavern or WordPress community gives me and provide my thoughts/answer to. This weeks question was submitted by community member andrew. Which current WordPress feature do you think is most likely to be a contributing…
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